To See the Dawn: Baku, 1920-First Congress of the Peoples of the East

362 Pages·1993·8.843 MB·English

by  Documents, John Riddell (editor), Ma'mud Shirvani (editor)

To See the Dawn

THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL
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Baku, 1920-First Congress
of the Peoples of the East
Edited by John Riddell
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ISBN 0-87348-769-9 paper; ISBN 0-87348-768-0 cloth
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 93-85321
Manufactured in the United States of America
First edition, 1993
COVER PHOTOS
Front cover: Delegates at Baku congress
Back cover: (from left) Najiye Hanum, Khaver Shabanova, and Bulach
Tatu, members of congress Presiding Committee
Courtesy of City Library, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Cover and book design by Eric Simpson
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CONTENTS
8 Maps
I I Introduction
36 Call to the Baku congress
PROCEEDINGS
45 OPENING RALLY
Zinoviev, 47; Radek, 52; Kun, 54; Quelch, 55; Rosmer, 56;
Reed, 57; Steinhardt, 58
60 SESSION 1. Tasks of the Congress of the Peoples of the East
Narimanov, 60; Report by Zinoviev, 63
So SESSION 2. World political situation
Report by Radek, Bo; Buniatzadeh, 96; Shakir, 99," Haydar
Khan, roo
IOJ SESSION 3. Discussion: Turkestan, Mountain republic
Narbutabekov, ro3; Korkmasov, ro9
I I4 SESSION 4. Guest speakers; India; Turkey
Zinoviev, I r4; Quelch, I r6; Rosmer, I r8; Fazil al-Qadir, r20;
Declaration by Indian Revolutionary Organization, I20;
Shablin, r2r; Declaration by Enver Pasha, r22; Statement by
Ibrahim Tali, I26; Resolution on Turkey, r29; Zinoviev, r30;
Addendum: Speech by John Reed, I 3 2
I 37 SESSION 5. National and colonial questions
Report by Pavlovich, r37; Matushev, r59," Ryskulov, r65
I72 SESSION 6. Soviets in the East; agrarian question
Report by Kun, r 72; Theses on Soviet power in the East, I Bo;
Report by Skachko, r83; Theses on the agrarian question,
r94
20I SESSION 7. Council for Propaganda and Action; women of
the East; concluding remarks
Resolution on Council for Propaganda and Action, 202;
Zinoviev, 202; Rojabov, 203; Report by Najiye, 204; Bibinur,
207;Tajiyev, 2owYegorov, 2ro;Narimanov, 2r2;Zinoviev, 2r3
2u Manifesto to the peoples of the East
2 34 Appeal to the workers of Europe, America, and Japan
242 Composition of the congress
APPENDIXES
24 7 APPENDIX 1. Declaration of Soviet government on rights of
peoples of Russia
2 50 APPENDIX 2. Appeal to all toiling Muslims of Russia and the
East (Council of Peopk's Commissars)
253 APPENDIX 3. Address to the Second All-Russia Congress of
Communist Organizations of the Peoples of the East
(V.l. Lenin)
266 APPENDIX 4. Theses on the national and colonial questions
( Second Congress of the Communist International)
273 APPENDIX 5. A new world (Baku City Executive Committee,
Azerbaijan Communist Party)
277 APPENDIX 6. Workers of Armenia have cemented an
alliance with toiling Azerbaijan (Del,egation from
Armenia)
282 APPENDIX 7. Zionism: an exchange of views at the Baku
congress
a) Thousands ofJ ewish toilers need land (Mountainjews),
282
b) Settle and colonize Palestine on communist principles
(Jewish Communist Party/Poal,e Zion), 284
c) The slogan must be "Hands off Palestine" (Jewish Sections,
Communist Party of Russia), 288
292 APPENDIX 8. Correcting abuses of Soviet power in Asia
a) Corrections must be made, and made quickly (Twenty-one
del£gates to Baku congress), 292
b) Communist tasks among Eastern peoples (Political Bureau,
Communist Party of Russia), 302
c) Appeal to Red Army soldiers fighting in the East ( Council
of Propaganda and Action), 304
3m Notes
327 Glossary of names and terms
335 Index
Photographs are found after page 174
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